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Statement
from the
Arab Ba'ath Socialist
Party (of Iraq)
- MAY 13, 2004 -
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One
Arab Nation with Eternal Mission
Unity, Liberty, Socialism
THE IRAQI OIL IN THE HEART OF THE BA'ATH
AND THE RESISTANCE STRATEGY
Dignified
Iraqis !
Glorious
Daughters and Sons of the Arab Nation !
Ba’ath
Comrades and Resistance Mujahideen !
In
these days thirty-two years ago, the Ba’ath and the national
political leadership in Iraq issued a warning to the western
oil cartel companies that had absolute rights on oil in Iraq.
In those days the Iraqis, the region and the World (especially
the oil companies and the Imperial decision making centers) in
UK and USA, lived on the tempo of the steps taken by the
Ba’ath and the responsible and inflexible Iraqi leadership
into putting their warning into execution. Many in those days,
including the oil companies countries and Arab regimes who are
the oil guards in the Arab peninsula and the Gulf, and even
Arab Communist parties, were sure that the Ba’ath will
either hesitate or withdraw its 1972 warning. On that very day
of June 1st, the historic nationalization decision, as
promised and vowed by the Ba’ath was born according to a
studied plan based on a challenging political, economical and
security ground experienced by al Ba’ath and the people of
Iraq who together made this national, patriotic and
progressive achievement possible. The date of June 1st 1972
was a turning point and a promising start and a permanent
challenge, drawn, launched and backed by the Ba’ath, and
through which Iraq rode the economical, and social development
course, and the true national independence, and national and
human sharing with brothers and friends, in order to build the
power and strength, define and protect the national and Arab
identity of the Iraqi oil.
The
Iraqi oil nationalization battle endured by the Ba’ath
according to its pan Arab and socialist ideology, and
putting into practice its social, economic and defense
policies, asserting its strategic goals drawn on the long term,
was an ongoing battle of challenges with the backward
regressive Arab sectarianism, international imperialism, and
racist Zionism. This is a truth which cannot be denied
with the battle still going on, and the American Imperialism
organized invasion against Iraq, and the armed looting of its
oil with the complicity and support of the regressive
religious forces and Arab regressive regimes and Zionist
"Israel".
And
here we assert the following:
1 - The Iraqi oil with its National and Arab Identity has been and will
always be in the heart of the struggle:
*
The battle of the Iraq Oil nationalization and what have
followed constitute the first engagement with the Shah's Iran
and its role as the Gulf Cop according to Imperialist
America's interest and desires after the failure of Mossadaq
Revolution.
*
It was also a disagreement point and a political rivalry
between the Arab peninsula regressive states - especially the
Saudi regime - on pricing, production and OPEC role.
*
It was also a rivalry area in the Independent decision battle
and the political vision in the Cold war scenes during the
bipolar period either in the Indian subcontinent conflict or
the consequences of the Saudi failure to establish an Islamic
Coalition; or what position to take concerning the communist
revolution in Afghanistan and the Arab Gulf states support to
the US and its picked up (Mujahideen).
*
It was also a competitive and rivalry field between the
National and Pan Arab position by some of the resource limited
Arab states after the October ' 73 war and the following known
arrangements and the exit of Egypt from the Zionist Arab
struggle.
*
And it was in the heart of the military struggle with
Khomeini's Iran plans and its still ongoing occupational
project through its occupation of islands belonging to a US
backing and allied Oil Gulf state in the actual aggression
against Iraq which helped insure the US hegemony over the Gulf
oil in the past.
2 - The Iraqi oil with its pan Arab national and independent identity used
for development on scientific and technical basis was and will
be:
*
A means and an objective of the struggle and challenge endured
and adopted by Iraq according to the Ba’ath Strategy for
technical and industrial development, putting into practice
the development for legitimate military industries.
*
It was an Imperialist US target in its plan to circumvent,
contain, and strike Iraq and its political leadership, its
independent and self sufficient development programme, through
what the US used such as the Regressive Kurdish rebellion in
northern Iraq or the role played by the Al Sabbah family in
Kuwait by purposely lowering the prices or drowning the
markets with the crude oil after Iraq's decisive victory over
Khomeini's Iran.
*
It was the Imperialist US target in the period after the
lowering of prices by designing UN resolutions based on
pretexts and lies, for 13 years, targeting the Iraqi oil
simply because the independent, national pan Arab political
identity set for developement. The US tried and failed to use
the oil as a mean to starve the people of Iraq during the
unjust embargo. Meanwhile, the oil was, for the Ba’ath, an
opportunity to undertake outstanding and challenging
achievement through the use of this National wealth revenues
for construction, challenges and development inside Iraq first
and before everything else, thus breaking down US plans and
forcing it to accept Iraq conditions through the signing of
the memorandum of understanding first, and second to throw
away the UN resolution No1284.
3 - The occupied Iraqi oil and the US armed hold up of this wealth, are
and will be a legitimate and a permanent target in the plans
and objectives of the armed resistance actions to liberate
Iraq and defeat the invaders.
*
The Iraq oil being an indivisible part of the occupied Iraqi
homeland, and being an impossible to achieve target for the
Imperialist US hegemony since the June 1st 1973 courageous
nationalization decision, was a possible national strategy to
defend Iraq during the aggression and became a target strategy
in the action of the Iraqi armed resistance, based on its
political and strategic ongoing plans in the combat and
resistance military operations. That is why the extraction,
the production, the transport routes and terminals were
attacked in Iraq from the very first months of the resistance
operations.
*
The Invader thought to rely on its occupation and hold up of
Iraqi oil to compensate its gigantic material losses because
of its aggression and because of the ongoing and growing armed
resistance, it will fail and it will for sure loose, because
the Ba’ath and the Resistance leadership have vowed to make
these targets impossible for the invader to achieve until Iraq
is liberated and the total and utter defeat of the occupiers.
*
The battle to prevent the occupation from a hold on Iraqi oil
is a part of Iraq liberation battle, thus the adoption of
every legitimate mean and combat ways etc. to reach that
objective, remain open now or in the future. The growing and
the development of the armed resistance will put on practice
every possible means militarily and technically to prevent the
occupier from stealing Iraq's oil and to use its revenues in
any structures with anybody and under any circumstances on the
national and international levels.
On
this basis, every one who collaborates with the occupier, such
as employees, merchants, middlemen, be they Iraqis, Arabs or
non-Arab will be watched and targeted without any hesitation.
*
There will be no further warning, and those who feel concerned
should reconsider their position. The employees, the
technicians and engineers on the extraction sites and along
the transport routes, in the oil terminals and the offices of
the Oil sector, should start to suspend their work and give up
their posts and join the resistance each one according to his
technical and administration position to prevent the
occupation from stealing Iraq oil.
4 - The Iraqi oil will be an active factor leading to the failure of the
Imperialist US project in Iraq and in the region.
*
The deepening and the growing impasse of the Occupation in
Iraq instigated by the Iraqi armed resistance and its
organized and calculated action compared with the limited
electoral agenda facing the aggressive US administration, will
lead to failure when it comes to how to deal with its Iraqi
impasse, or how to get some kind of success such as improving
the economic situation in the US and its connection with the
energy international markets when it comes to lowering or
controlling the oil prices.
*
The US administration attempts to use the traditional Saudis
plotting role in OPEC through the increase of crude oil
production thus destroying the system of quotas agreed upon by
member states before the US elections in the hope to lower the
prices, will be a dangerous and non guaranteed enterprise amid
the state of crises and expected security chaos in the region
and mainly in Saudi Arabia. With the growing opposition in
Saudi Arabia and its armed operations in many cases, the Saudi
oil factor will be sensitive to any action taken by the
opposition through military operation in Najd and Hijaz
regions and in Al Ihsaa area as well.
*
With the incoming meeting of the G8 scheduled on the June 8th,
the US Administration will have to face an international
agenda to defend its global commercial, technical and
financial policies, including its lost control on the
ascending oil prices in spite of its hegemony on the Gulf oil
and its occupation and hold up of Iraqi oil. The US will have
also to explain its failure against the international war on
terror, which costs and is still costing the G8 a huge amount
of financial burden with no tangible result. The terror indeed
has established itself in these countries and it is felt there
more than any time ever.
*
The current US impasse in Iraq, and in the region, and the
current high oil prices pressure, might push the US to
undertake something which could target the geographically
closer oil fields such as those in Venezuela; either through
invasion or through a military coup using mercenaries for that
purpose.
This
is how the Ba’ath put the oil of Iraq into the heart of
its economical; and development strategy, defining its
identity on the national and pan Arab level in order to serve
Iraq political and pan Arab interests, strengthening Iraq and
Arab relations with others on the basis of mutual interests.
This is how the Ba’ath and the leadership of liberation
and resistance put Iraq oil in the resistance political and
strategic project, as an objective to liberate Iraq and expel
the Invaders.
The political information and publication Bureau
Of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party Iraq
May 13th 2004
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